Reaction to dark snuffs?

Boxen

At this point I've had SPs, an Indian white, a couple of medicated snuffs, and few coarse dark snuffs (from Gawith and F&T). And a schmalzler. I am finding that the dark coarse snuffs give me an immediate strong reaction of violent sneezing and heavy nose dripping. Maybe not so much the schmalzler. But I can take the lighter ones just fine, no sneezing, and I can hold them in my nose for awhile. My daily snuffs are Gawith Vereys Plus and Old Paris.

Are the dark snuffs a different kind of tobacco? Does anyone else have a specific reaction like that?

SammyD13

The main difference is just moisture and grind, but you will see fire cured leaf used a lot more in the darker, coarser snuffs. Could be you are reacting to the smoke in there.

ar47

I used dark snuffs only seldomly for the same reason ... until I found Viking Thor's Hammer (thanks @SammyD13) which I enjoyed so much I put up with the Niagara Falls nose I got with many darks. After enjoying one regularly my nose quickly adapted and now I can take darks - within reasonable volume - before leaving the house without a tissue. Practice makes perfect!

volunge

@Boxen, besides (a blend of) powdered tobacco (-s) and water, most snuffs contain some of the further listed ingredients, such as edible salt, salmiak, potassium, sodium or ammonium carbonate, slaked lime, various essential oils, camphor, menthol; there might be a small amount of molasses or artificial sweetener, as well as paraffin oil or ghee, to mention but a few (most common constituents).

Poschl Red Bull Strong snuff always triggers crazy sneezing fits for me, but it's neither dark nor coarse. I'm sure it's my reaction to the additives, not the tobacco. I didn't sneeze from Old Paris, but I do remember The Drip (I would blame higher pH - which is the case with most fresh (moist) strong snuffs; all schmalzlers are oiled with paraffin that makes them runny). I especially enjoyed OP as a morning nose primer.

bob

yes coarse snuffs don't agree with me as much as finer snuffs do. Though as has been pointed out it's not all coarse snuffs. And poschls really disagree with me. I have long suspected that it's the paraffin wax. How do I deal with it, well not taking them.

Boxen

Yeah, I guess there's all kinds of additives that I'm not thinking of as well. I hope I can eventually adjust - I'd like to be able to take Elmo's Reserve without my nose complaining so much, that stuff is nice.....

volunge

@Boxen, you could try cutting Elmo's with other snuff, which doesn't cause you those issues.

eblip

I love dark coarse snuffs...my favorite is NTSU, I also like gawith hoggarth sp, which is not dark but the best sp by far...next favorite snuff is kendal brown , taxi red is pretty good..and wos best dark is wonderful stuff..
ntsu and kendal brown i could not live without...and would be happy with just those two.

The white snuffs dont even compare.

PrinceValium

If you like Taxi and Best dark try Babaton Blue

n9inchnails

@PrinceValium love the username, Spaceballs rocks!

mrmanos

I like dark snuffs but not exclusively. Black rappee, London Brown, Santo Domingo, and NTSU are my favorites, plus Princes. Oh, taxi, babaton and other SA snuffs.

tboyer

I use dark course snuff about 70% of the time